If the surveillance cameras can’t even catch the persons who removed all of their cameras, then they have proven to be worthless at catching real criminals, with their only proven worth is stalking police officers ex wives.

This is a known issue with flock systems, sometimes they just do that.

This is a city of ~25K people, so quite small. Several articles have pointed out that the city, not Flock, bears the costs of the vandalism, so in this instance the city counsel that enabled the city to enter into the contract with Flock to the detriment of its citizens have now burdened the city with a substantial budget item. If the cameras are replaced, you can bet that they will likely be torn down again. At some point there will be a reckoning with voters, and hopefully the idiots that enabled the surveillance state will be voted out.

One witness said "I'm Glad members of the community do civic duties, but we don't need to active about finding their identity, I'm sure they did it as a gift for society"

Must have been the wind

Amazing. How true is this? Anyone got a source?

Edit: ah, they only had 8 cameras. Still, that's amazing.

https://www.wqow.com/news/crime/winona-police-all-8-flock-cameras-stolen-poles-cut-at-base/article_62f9942f-690e-46a5-aa48-6798fbab3665.html

It's called "Flock." Obviously, they all flew away! But you can't blame the PD for not knowing that; pigs don't know much about flying.

Flocks are known to take off and fly away on their own.

How did they destroy the cameras without being seen by all the damn cameras?

Let me know if you find who did it, so I can go down on them until my jaw rots off.

Whomever the suspect was they were fucking my mother that night and there is no way they could have done it because it was going on all night long.

All of Winona, Minnesota was with me, in Switzerland, on a river on an inflatable raft, enjoying the heat wave. Couldn't have been them.

The cameras fell down on their own

"I was right there with a bodycam when they all tore themselves down but it was turned off for, uh, routine maintenance."

Flock off

I ain’t did it, I ain’t know who did it, and I ain’t never gonna convict anybody charged for doing this or any similar so-called crime if I’m on the jury

Hey man, it was higher power as far as I'm concerned.

They were on the other side of the country with me

Apparently the government stores hundreds of dollars in the cameras as a reward for helping take them down!

Twas the spirit of paul bunyon

didn't you know flock cameras just do that

The Big Brown Beaver did it.

HHEEEEEEYYYY!!! WHO TOOK OUR FLOCKKKSSSSS??!!!

They're easy to cut down for now. The next step is going to be making them radio antenna's that mount on light poles so they're way harder to see or reach. The camera function will get removed, since it isn't needed anyway.

I thought Winona had a big brown beaver...perhaps I was mistaken

Idk why people bother cutting them. The poles they use are two part you can zip out the screws with a torx safety bit and just pull it off the pole. Cutting definitely takes more time

I would very much like to know how tf people manage to steal a camera. To me it sounds like finding a way to get soap dirty.